Recognizing as necessary the granting of a certain independence to the Baku oil industry to exchange in Persia, Turkestan and Europe petroleum products for items of equipment and the provision of workers with clothing and foodstuffs, I request that you provide your conclusion and a coordinated draft decree for tomorrow's session of the Council of People's Commissars.229

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

copies signed by

V. I. Lenin

Written April 18, 1921

First published in 1932

in Lenin Miscellany XX

Printed from the typewritten copy